Joan Miró in front of his painting, “Le Vol d’Oiseau par le Claire de Lune” (painted 1967) (photo c. 1970s. © Artists Rights Society, NY) How did postwar New ...

The Spaniard applied free association to the canvas with radical results. When you walk through the galleries of an art museum, it’s evident that the people responsible for all this — the artists, ...

Researchers discovered that a particular brand of paint favored by the Spanish artist had an atomic structure that predisposed it to degradation. By Katherine Kornei From Van Gogh’s sunflowers to ...

It has long been known to observers of the modern movement in art that the central pattern of its aesthetic development has been that of a dialectic in which every heretical impulse has served as the ...

A portrait of Joan Miro's mother has hidden under "Painting" (1925–1927) for a century. (all images courtesy Fundació Joan Miró) In a Freudian posthumous twist, researchers discovered a portrait of ...

Exasperated young artists yearning to hit back at their ignorant parents could learn a trick from Joan Miró. Between 1925 and 1927, the Catalan native took a portrait of his mother, Dolors Ferrà i ...